Digital cameras have long been used photograph faraway stars and planets. While this technology is nothing new, the billion-pixel camera on the Gaia Spacecraft, to be launched by the European Space Agency in 2013 is nothing short of amazing.
Gaia’s camera is said to be among the largest of its kind to ever exist, and it is estimated that Gaia will detect 15,000 new alien planets over the course of its mission.
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Moulding chocolate by using plastic or silicone moulds is nothing new, in fact, the art has been around for many years. Moulds can only make one set chocolate shape and you need many different moulds to create differently shaped chocolates.
Combine chocolate moulding and today’s 3D printer technology and you have a match made in heaven, for chocolate lovers who love to make their own little special creation.
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Learning a new instrument is always a challenge to learn finger movements and such, but now, with the PossessedHand, an electric finger stimulator that makes your fingers move without any input from your brain.
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Remember the post I did on that conceptual Solar Powered laptop a couple of weeks ago? Well, that has actually been realised by Samsung as the NC215S.
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Anyone who has ever tried to wipe spilled ketchup or mayonaise off a table-top will know that it takes more than one or two wipes to clean the table entirely.
Cleaning up these types of spills are always tedious, so a company in Japan has invented the SWITL (it isn’t clear if this is an acronym or not, but if it is, no one knows what it stands for yet). It is a robotic device that is designed to scoop up spilled messes, that mostly consist of semi-liquid substances.
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Comic books are such a part of popular culture today that almost anyone will have read them at some point of their lives. It hasn’t been unheard of for you to be able to study the craft in places like Japan, but it must be a first for any university to offer the subject as a Masters Degree.
Of course, there is one place that has taken on the following and that is the Dundee University in Scotland. The University is now offering a one-year Masters in Comic Studies would be launched by its English department in September 2011.
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Solar-powered products are gaining more and more attention, as our society urges us to use cleaner and renewable energy.
In vein with solar-powered products that help make our world a greener place, here’s an interesting concept from Industrial Designer Andrea Ponti and his concept for the Luce Solar Panel Powered PC.
When we hear of high-tech products of some sort, they are usually not geared towards the female market. Either the design of the product is aimed more to the male market, or it is usually not done with women in mind.
The same could be said for the designs of solar-panel bags, and one such example would be the Quirky Trek Support Backpack, which while being a backpack, is certainly not a male-only item, but is most usually seen on men rather than women.
Diffus, a Danish design studio, is hoping to change that, and give the tech-savvy female population a solar-panelled handbag that not only looks great, but functions to store solar energy as well.
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In this day and age, it seems almost everyone has done away with the humble clamshell phone and has opted to buy themselves a swanky touchscreen smartphone.
Although it looks like the clamshell phone has mostly lessened in popularity over the years, it still holds strong with the Japanese population.
This is probably why the Japanese company Sharp has come up with this Aquos Phone Hybrid 007SH that unites the smartphone with the clamshell design.
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As our technology advances, the size of our gadgets seem to have decreased, and the same can be said for our mobile devices too. As much as everyone loves wants their tablets and mobile phone displays to be large, there is sometimes still the issue of portability.
Here’s some very promising research from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in South Korea that has realised the potential future of our displays by making this prototype of a seamless foldable display.
